CBS Evening News - 2006-11-20 (no intro) (Western)

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[0:00] driving check

[0:00] >> cut off the bus. The bus driver swerved

[0:03] trying to avoid it, but the bus slammed

[0:05] into the guardrail, sat suspended for a

[0:08] few seconds, and nose dived off the

[0:11] elevated freeway.

[0:12] >> The bus uh it hit on the front and on

[0:14] the top. And certainly those people on

[0:16] the front of the bus sustained the most

[0:17] serious injuries.

[0:18] >> Been a bad ride.

[0:19] >> Many family and friends were frantic.

[0:21] They rushed from one hospital to another

[0:23] trying to find their loved one. But the

[0:26] hospitals couldn't help them. Many of

[0:28] the most injured students couldn't speak

[0:30] and carried no identification.

[0:32] >> In some cases, we don't know who the

[0:34] children are. And that's got to be very

[0:37] frustrating as a parent.

[0:38] >> The bus driver who survived apparently

[0:40] just had no place to go, squeezed

[0:43] between another driver who got too close

[0:45] and the guardrail of an overpass.

[0:49] Police here now believe the driver of

[0:51] that compact car was another student

[0:53] from the same high school who was

[0:54] actually following the bus to the

[0:56] tactical center. What's unclear at this

[0:58] point is whether moments before the

[0:59] crash did the compact car actually hit

[1:02] the bus or just come close to hitting

[1:04] the bus. Either way, Katie, there was a

[1:06] deadly mistake.

[1:07] >> Mark Stman in Huntsville, Alabama

[1:09] tonight. That school bus did not have

[1:12] seat belts. In fact, most school buses

[1:14] don't. And no one is saying at this

[1:16] point whether seat belts might have

[1:18] saved lives or prevented any of the

[1:20] injuries in this crash. But it does

[1:22] raise an important safety question.

[1:24] Here's Lee Cowan.

[1:26] >> Big or small, when a school bus accident

[1:28] happens, you hear about it. And with

[1:30] almost every one of those accidents

[1:32] comes the very same question. Why aren't

[1:34] seat belts required? Take just one look

[1:37] at this school bus ROLLOVER IN OHIO.

[1:40] AND their need seems painfully obvious.

[1:43] Five states mandate safety belts be

[1:45] installed on new school buses, and none

[1:47] of the laws require students to buckle

[1:50] up. Why? In part, it's the numbers. With

[1:52] just six deaths for every 24 million

[1:55] riders, school buses are already the

[1:57] safest form of transportation around.

[1:59] And experts say adding the seat belts

[2:01] won't necessarily make them any safer.

[2:03] Crash tests show that school buses react

[2:05] differently than a car during an

[2:07] accident. The government says the best

[2:09] protection here is the padding on the

[2:12] back of bus seats, which creates a

[2:13] protective envelope for the student

[2:15] called compartmentalization. And they

[2:17] actually tested uh lap belts, lap

[2:20] shoulder belts, other means of of

[2:22] restraining uh passengers and still felt

[2:26] compartmentalization does the job.

[2:29] That's a relief to school buses who say

[2:31] the cost of installing seat belts could

[2:34] be as high as $6,000 per bus. But with

[2:37] an estimated $17,000 students injured

[2:40] every year in bus related accidents, the

[2:43] debate certainly isn't going away. Lee

[2:46] Cowan, CBS News, Dallas.

[2:49] >> We told you last week that the prospect

[2:51] of a new book by OJ Simpson about his

[2:53] notorious murder case and a Fox TV

[2:55] special to go with it was not worth our

[2:58] time or yours. Today, News Corporation

[3:00] chairman Rupert Murdoch apparently

[3:02] agreed. He pulled the plug after viewers

[3:04] revolted, some of his bigname anchors

[3:07] revolted, and Fox affiliates revolted

[3:10] against what everyone decided was a

[3:12] pretty revolting idea. Here's Sandra

[3:15] Hughes.

[3:16] >> I don't think any two people could be

[3:18] murdered without everybody being covered

[3:20] in blood.

[3:21] >> Crushed under relentless criticism for

[3:23] its plans to air OJ Simpson's

[3:25] confession. Today, News Corporation

[3:27] caved, saying it would cancel the deal

[3:30] for a two-part TV special and a book

[3:32] called If I Did It. In the book, Simpson

[3:35] was to describe how he would have

[3:37] committed the murders of his ex-wife and

[3:39] her friend Ron Goldman. Last week, Fred

[3:41] Goldman was furious. What is Fox going

[3:45] to do next? They going to have a weekly

[3:47] show airing various murders around the

[3:50] country, telling the world how they

[3:53] would do it.

[3:54] >> We caught up with Fred Goldman after

[3:56] today's announcement.

[3:57] >> And I'm thrilled that the the American

[3:59] public forced them to do what was right.

[4:02] >> Not guilty.

[4:03] >> Acquitted of the murder, Simpson was

[4:05] found responsible in civil court. But

[4:07] because of double jeopardy, Simpson

[4:09] can't be retried. Still, when Fox

[4:11] started to promote the supposed

[4:12] confession on its website, outrage

[4:15] started building. About a dozen local

[4:17] Fox stations decided to pull the plug on

[4:19] the TV specials. Borders Books decided

[4:21] to donate profits from the book to

[4:23] charity. On Face the Nation, Bob

[4:25] Schiffer articulated what many Americans

[4:27] were feeling.

[4:28] >> This one is more than wrong. It is just

[4:31] awful.

[4:32] >> Employees at News Corporation, which

[4:34] owns Fox News, agreed. And Fox's biggest

[4:36] star, Bill O'Reilly, said, "I'm not

[4:39] going to watch The Simpson Show or even

[4:41] look at the book. If any company

[4:43] sponsors the TV program, I will not buy

[4:45] anything that company sells ever."

[4:48] Heraldo Rivera said, "I will bash this

[4:50] project every minute I have the

[4:52] opportunity to bash this project." The

[4:54] piling on was too much even for Fox. The

[4:57] powers that be at Newscore calculated

[4:59] what they could stand to make on this

[5:02] project and how much they stood to lose

[5:04] in terms of face and in terms of

[5:06] credibility and decided that that

[5:08] whatever they might make on it wasn't

[5:09] worth it.

[5:10] >> While News Corp has apologized to both

[5:12] the Brown and Goldman families, it may

[5:14] come a little late. Ron Goldman's sister

[5:16] Kim tells me tonight a version of the

[5:18] book has already been leaked and she

[5:20] believes Simpson got his paycheck of

[5:22] $3.5 million. Sandra Hughes, CBS News,

[5:26] Los Angeles.

[5:28] >> Our other big story tonight, Iraq, where

[5:30] suddenly there's no shortage of ideas

[5:32] for ending the chaos there. Today, two

[5:35] of Iraq's neighbors stepped up with

[5:37] plans of their own. Elizabeth Palmer has

[5:39] the very latest from Baghdad.

[5:42] >> There are reports tonight that Iran has

[5:44] invited the presidents of Iraq and Syria

[5:46] to a summit to discuss the situation in

[5:49] Iraq, although it's not clear when the

[5:51] meeting might be or who would attend.

[5:53] But what is certain is that a pledge of

[5:56] help has come to the increasingly

[5:58] desperate Iraqi government directly from

[6:00] the Syrians and it's considered a

[6:02] diplomatic breakthrough. Although

[6:05] neighbors, the two countries haven't had

[6:07] formal ties for 24 years. Wid Mouam

[6:11] called for a timetable for America's

[6:13] troops to withdraw from Iraq.

[6:16] >> It would, he said, help reduce violence

[6:19] and preserve security. The Syrians are

[6:22] plainly worried that escalating violence

[6:24] here could spill over their borders

[6:27] along with a flood of Iraqi refugees.

[6:30] Clearly, neither Iraq nor the United

[6:32] States would have called Syria an ally

[6:34] until now. But it's safe to say a

[6:37] significant diplomatic event took place

[6:39] in Baghdad today, especially if Syria

[6:42] gets serious about choking off the flow

[6:45] of hundreds of insurgent fighters that

[6:47] cross its borders into Iraq. Elizabeth

[6:50] Palmer, CBS News, Baghdad.

[6:53] >> US military planners are reportedly

[6:55] studying three possible strategies for

[6:58] Iraq with nicknames that sound like a

[7:01] football playbook. Go big, go long, or

[7:04] go home. President Bush, who returned

[7:06] today from Asia, says he hasn't made up

[7:08] his mind about those plans. Here's our

[7:10] national security correspondent, David

[7:13] Martin.

[7:14] Robert Gates spent the day shuttling

[7:16] between Capitol Hill and the White

[7:18] House, where he was later joined by

[7:19] Donald Rumsfeld. Both the incoming and

[7:22] outgoing defense secretaries are focused

[7:24] on coming up with a new Iraq strategy. A

[7:27] team of military advisers has developed

[7:29] one option which includes a temporary

[7:31] troop buildup as prelude to the start of

[7:34] a withdrawal. a measure of the quandry

[7:36] the Bush administration faces that was

[7:39] rejected just last week by the top

[7:41] military commander for Iraq.

[7:43] >> I do not believe that more American

[7:45] troops right now is the solution to the

[7:48] problem.

[7:48] >> General John Abzade said putting in

[7:50] another 20,000 American troops would

[7:52] keep a tighter lid on the violence, but

[7:55] it would undermine the strategy of

[7:56] turning over the fighting to Iraqis.

[7:59] What he really needs, Abizade said, is

[8:01] more American trainers to build up Iraqi

[8:03] forces. That option is nicknamed go long

[8:07] as in US troops will be there for a long

[8:10] time. Other options look more like straw

[8:12] man. Go big, a massive buildup to crush

[8:16] the insurgency. That is considered both

[8:18] militarily and politically impractical.

[8:21] Go home. A relatively quick withdrawal

[8:25] which most experts believe would end any

[8:27] chance of saving Iraq.

[8:30] >> So far, the only practical new option is

[8:32] a diplomatic one. begin talks with Iran

[8:35] and Syria. Katie,

[8:36] >> meanwhile, David, I know that Henry

[8:38] Kissinger weighed in on the BBC today

[8:40] and he wasn't very optimistic either,

[8:43] was he?

[8:44] >> He says that uh victory, a clear

[8:47] military victory is now impossible. And

[8:50] the point he's making is that if the

[8:51] Iraqi government doesn't get its act

[8:53] together, there's nothing the US

[8:55] military can do to stave off a disaster

[8:58] in Iraq.

[8:59] >> David Martin at the Pentagon tonight.

[9:01] Thank you. Thomas Freriedman is the

[9:03] Pulitzer Prizewinning foreign affairs

[9:05] columnist for the New York Times and the

[9:07] author most recently of The World is

[9:09] Flat. Tom, why would I do this right

[9:13] now? What's in it for him?

[9:15] >> I think two things are probably

[9:16] motivating him, Katie. One is a desire

[9:19] just to steal a march on the United

[9:20] States. It's Iran's way of saying this

[9:22] is our neighborhood. We are the regional

[9:24] superpower. And if anyone's going to

[9:25] have a peace conference around here

[9:27] about Iraq, uh, we'll convene it. Number

[9:29] one. But number two, I think the

[9:30] Iranians may have gotten the message

[9:32] that um there is a growing movement in

[9:34] this country just to pull out of Iraq.

[9:36] And if that happens, um Iran will become

[9:39] the de facto winner of Iraq.

[9:42] >> But can any good come from this

[9:43] conference, this regional meeting? Um, I

[9:46] don't think any regional meeting is

[9:48] going to work um if all the key players

[9:50] are not represented, Katie. That's Iran,

[9:53] that's Saudi Arabia, that's Jordan,

[9:55] that's Syria, that's Turkey, and it's

[9:56] the United States as well as the Iraqi

[9:58] government.

[9:59] >> And do you think this really might

[10:01] develop a a a solution for the situation

[10:05] over there?

[10:06] >> Well, I I'm rather despondent that

[10:08] anything can really solve the situation

[10:10] in Iraq right now, Katie. You know, the

[10:12] Iraq is so broken, Katie, that um uh it

[10:17] can't even have a proper civil war. Um

[10:19] it's so broken, you know, to have a

[10:21] proper civil war, you need two sides,

[10:24] basically. There are now 15 sides there.

[10:27] >> But Tom, it can't go on like this

[10:28] indefinitely, can it?

[10:30] >> No, it can't go on like this

[10:32] indefinitely. Our choice in Iraq is

[10:34] this, Katie. 10 weeks or 10 years. That

[10:37] is either we are going to conclude that

[10:39] this thing is so broken and therefore we

[10:42] just gonna have to get out or we're

[10:44] going to say this thing is so broken we

[10:46] basically have to start over. And that

[10:49] is a 10-year project because the idea

[10:52] that there's some kind of middle ground

[10:54] where we kind of stand up the Iraqi army

[10:56] and then we kind of quietly leave. I

[10:58] think that's an illusion.

[10:59] >> Tom Freriedman of the New York Times.

[11:01] Tom, thank you.

[11:03] >> Pleasure. And there's much more CBS news

[11:06] straight ahead. Coming up next, it took

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[14:18] This is the story of five people who

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[14:23] had a family member willing to donate

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[14:28] woman named Honey, who just wanted to

[14:30] help came along. So doctors reshuffled

[14:33] the deck, mixing and matching those who

[14:36] needed a new kidney and those willing to

[14:38] give one. A fiveway kidney swap among

[14:41] strangers.

[14:42] >> Christine, you got Honey's kidney, but

[14:46] you did not know Honey,

[14:47] >> right?

[14:48] >> And then Florence, you gave your kidney

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[14:53] >> To Lani. This is confusing.

[14:56] >> Think that's confusing? Consider this.

[14:59] The doctors that paired the couples up

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[15:03] day in the same hospital. Did you feel

[15:06] like John Madden on game day moving

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[15:10] >> Yeah. No, that's a great analogy. It was

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[15:12] >> Dr. Robert McGomery led the team of 12

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[15:22] swapping and transplanting with dizzying

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[15:29] Jansy, one of nearly 70,000 people on

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[15:34] >> And you think, okay, at the worst case

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[15:39] >> And how long has it been for you?

[15:41] >> 12.

[15:41] >> 12 years you waited.

[15:42] >> Doctors say these paired exchanges save

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[15:53] receive something for donating an organ.

[15:56] >> It's an absurdity. It needs to be

[15:58] clarified.

[15:59] >> Doctors are hoping Congress will clarify

[16:01] it soon. Clarifying who ended up with

[16:04] whose kidney here could take a lifetime.

[16:07] Fortunately, these strangers now have

[16:10] one. Sharon Alfonsi, CBS News,

[16:13] Baltimore.

[16:15] And just ahead here on the CBS Evening

[16:18] News, Seinfeld and Kramer together

[16:19] again, but this time no one is laughing.

[16:22] An exclusive look at their response to a

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[19:03] >> Well, another Hollywood celebrity has

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[19:07] saying something offensive in public.

[19:09] This time, it's a famous sitcom star,

[19:12] and we have an exclusive preview of that

[19:14] apology.

[19:16] During a performance at a comedy club in

[19:18] Los Angeles last Friday, Seinfeld's

[19:20] Kramer, Michael Richards, was heckled by

[19:23] an African-American in the audience. His

[19:26] response was anything but funny. A

[19:28] racist tirade complete with the n-word.

[19:33] >> Late today, Jerry Seinfeld appeared on a

[19:35] taping of the Late Show with David

[19:37] Letterman to be broadcast tonight and

[19:39] arranged for Michael Richards to be on

[19:41] as well. You know, I was extremely upset

[19:44] about it and uh he is extremely upset

[19:46] about it and I asked him if he would

[19:49] come on the show tonight.

[19:50] >> I lost my temper on stage. I was at u a

[19:54] comedy club trying to um do my act and I

[19:57] got heckled and I I I took it badly and

[20:00] went into a rage. For me to be in a

[20:04] comedy club and flip out and say this

[20:07] crap, you know, I'm I'm deeply deeply

[20:10] sorry. I'm not a racist. That's what's

[20:12] so insane about this.

[20:14] >> I know how shattered he is about this.

[20:16] And um and he deserves a chance. That's

[20:19] why I want him to come on. He deserves a

[20:21] chance to apologize.

[20:23] >> There is much more of David's

[20:24] conversation with Jerry Seinfeld and

[20:26] Michael Richards tonight on the Late

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[23:14] Tomorrow, you've heard about the big

[23:16] screens young starlets dying to be thin.

[23:18] Think they're getting skinny on their

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[23:21] hear about Hollywood's dirty little

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[23:26] We're all looking forward this week to

[23:28] Thanksgiving. I know I am. A holiday

[23:30] which if you think about it really has

[23:31] two parts. Thanks, the gratitude we show

[23:34] for what we have and giving, the sharing

[23:37] of what we have. So, in the spirit of

[23:39] the season, we'll be introducing you

[23:41] this week to people who have discovered

[23:43] the joy of giving and new ways of doing

[23:46] so. Kelly Coobe begins our special

[23:49] series we're calling giving back.

[23:53] When I first started working here, it's

[23:55] the first thing I tried.

[23:56] >> Terresa Dean never thought she'd have a

[23:58] job.

[23:58] >> You're welcome.

[23:59] >> Not because she didn't want one. She

[24:01] just couldn't imagine her life being

[24:02] that good.

[24:03] >> I don't think I picture anything

[24:05] positive or happy. I just pictured

[24:08] myself. It's like, you know, this is who

[24:11] I am. This is what I'm going to be for

[24:12] the rest of my life.

[24:13] >> Let's play the pet naming game.

[24:15] >> She was pregnant at 16 and just 6 months

[24:18] ago homeless in Austin, Texas with a son

[24:20] to feed. But instead of handouts, she

[24:23] got a hand up. Well, about a hundred

[24:26] hands really from women like Rebecca

[24:28] Powers living in the same city but a

[24:31] different world.

[24:32] >> We did a lot in our schools and in the

[24:34] church, but we didn't ever think about

[24:36] how we might participate in in our town.

[24:39] >> So over coffee, Rebecca and her friends

[24:42] decided to try a new take on the

[24:44] oldfashioned sewing circle, a giving

[24:47] circle. ask each of their friends and

[24:49] their friends friends to donate a

[24:51] thousand dollars. And when the pot

[24:53] reaches a hundred,000, they'd all get a

[24:55] vote on where the money goes. That kind

[24:57] of grassroots giving is growing. More

[25:00] than 400 giving circles have sprouted

[25:02] across the country with women raising

[25:04] anywhere from a few hundred dollars to

[25:06] hundreds of thousands.

[25:08] >> An invitation to the party of

[25:11] philanthropy. Cincinnati mom Wendy

[25:13] Steele saw the potential 5 years ago and

[25:16] began recruiting busy moms and working

[25:18] women who couldn't afford to volunteer.

[25:20] >> I tried to find a way for them to get

[25:22] involved without giving their most

[25:24] precious commodity, their time.

[25:26] >> The Austin Group's first grant helped

[25:28] fund a work training program for

[25:30] atrisisk youth. Their circle has grown

[25:32] to more than 300 women and recruiting is

[25:35] as easy as a trip to the ice cream shop.

[25:37] >> We can see the face of the people that

[25:40] we're helping. We can go into Ben and

[25:42] Jerry's and the kids behind that counter

[25:45] are there because our money is paying

[25:47] their salaries. That's powerful.

[25:50] >> Today, Teresa has an apartment, a

[25:52] paycheck, and pride.

[25:54] >> The first thing I did was take my son

[25:55] out and bought him shoes and clothes. It

[25:57] was lovely.

[25:58] >> And that hand up has created something

[26:01] else.

[26:01] >> Every time I'm on the street, if

[26:02] somebody ask for some change, I'm going

[26:03] to give what I have. If it's the last

[26:05] dollar in my pocket, I'm going to give

[26:06] it to them because I've been there

[26:08] before and I know how it feels. The

[26:10] giving circle keeps giving. Kelly

[26:12] Kobaya, CBS News, Austin.

[26:15] >> And tomorrow night, we're going to tell

[26:17] you about a growing trend in giving.

[26:18] People who see their donations not only

[26:21] as gifts, but actually as investments.

[26:24] That's the CBS Evening News for tonight.

[26:26] Thank you so much for watching. I hope

[26:28] to see you again tomorrow night. Good

[26:30] night, everyone.

[26:43] Fixing your aching back should you have

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[26:49] the CBS Evening News with Katie Kurrick.

[26:52] See it now.

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